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The Magiculum: A symposium on performance magic, enchantment and mystery.

Hosted by the Magic Research Group at The University of Huddersfield – The Magiculum is a one-day symposium on magic, enchantment and mystery, exploring performance magic as a map for re-enchantment in all its forms. Taking a deliberately open approach to the work, we hope for a day of papers, provocations, short performances on notions of the performance and the study of magic.

The broad plan for the day is to have a series of informal panels, space for each speaker to present for 15-20 minutes, and space to discuss work and practice.

A full schedule for the day will be announced in due course, contributors include; Stuart Burrell, Franc Chamberlain, Andy Cooper. Eddie Dean, Madelon Hoedt, Todd Landman, Stuart Nolan, Martyn Smith & Nik Taylor.

Martyn Smith - Wonder Telling and The Wondertale: A Comparative Study of Effect Classification in Conjuring and Narrative Structure in Literature

Session Two: Magic Worlds

Stuart Nolan – Political Magic

Andy Cooper – A Magician is a Games Master running an immersive event: A LARP based model for magic performance

Franc Chamberlain – Ethics of Dis-enchantment

Session Three: Magic and Questions of Performance

Nik Taylor – Magic as Broken Knowledge

Eddie Dean – The End of Mind Reading

Stuart Burrell - The Magic in Escapology

- Magiculum is a term that emerged from considerations of the curriculum for magic in all its forms. The term evolved to include the study and performance of magic, and the physical gatherings of broad minded magicians and mystery entertainers. It is also the title of an edited volume of essays by Academic Magician Todd Landman published in 2014 by EyeCorner Press.